Re: Gottshall of Montreal PQ Canada
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In reply to:
Gottshall of Montreal PQ Canada
Richard Hamel 9/08/02
Table of contents
Dedication and Legene of Symbols
Foreward and Ackknowledgements
The History of the name “Gottschalk,” and the origin of the Family Coast of Arms
TheGeographiy and description of Remsede, Germany, the parental home, the church, and the village
The beginning of the Gottschalk Genealogy
Descendants of Heinrich Clkemens Ausgust Gottschalk, Germany
Descendants of Bernard Henry Gottschalk, Pittsburg, PA
Descendants of John Henry Gottschalk, PPittsburg, PA.
Descendants of William Ludwig Gottschalk—Pittsburh, PA.
Descendants of George Henry Gottscalk—Kansass
Priests and Nuns in our history
Index of Families
DEDICATION
To all our parents , grandparents, who inspired us with thei courage and good example, and above all, who kept our religious heritage in highest esteem, we dedicate this volume, so as an humble return of our love and gratitude.
LEGEND OF SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
1) In This book, every name is followed by a date, which always signifies the date of birth.
2) 2)Within each of the 5 main branches, each child will be given its own special serial number , which will also be used to identify the child and ists spouse when they are listed as a family.All married persons can thus be traced back to the family which they were born.
3) 3)00=This sign indicates “double rings” and is a symbol of marriage.
4) 4)==This crosss, following a name, indicated that they are deceased, and the date following, when available, tells of the date of death.
FOREWARD
With the celebration of the Bi-Centenial year of our Coutry, many documents and datea have come aalive, to awken in the minds of our American citizens how rich their heritage over the the past two hundred years has been.It makes people more proud of their Country, and spurs them on to learning more about its history.In the samwe spirit, amny family hisorites have appeared in print in recent years to motivate, to remind the present generation and those yet to come, just wo their ancestors were, from where they originated and what kind of people their forefathers really were.
Itt has been a matter of great curiosity for me over a span of years, to wish for a clearer picture of our own Gottschalk relationship.For many years my reltves have suggested that somebody should make this reseach!It is difficult for me to understand how George Henry Gottschalk (188 to 1917), with his education and years of teaching, never thought to set to writing the history of his family, together with the migration of his three brothers and himself over to America. , beginning with the year 1867.The written documents and information anof those years in our relationship, were, to say the least very meager.
Over the last fifteen years, this feeling of curiosity that possessed me, became a determined desire to find an answer.It became clearer to me, that if there was to be a Family Tree Record, I had better take the task in hand now.Being inexperienced in this type of work the beginnings were naturally difficult and disheartiening, because I could not find sources of information about whether tjere were relatives of our Grandparents will living in Germany, and if so, what was their present address.Without this first step, I knew there would be no adequate “Family Story”.At least three or four persons going to Germany had promised me an honest search in the area of Osnabrueck, but it always ended in failure.
In May of 1973, I met a man in Victoria, Kansas, named Mr. Heinrich Witteman, whose wife was a nice to Fr. Jordon Hammel, Capuchin.This gentleman was from Mannheim, Germany, working in the Police Department.He listened to my story of frustrations, and then made me a solemann promise to make a thorough search in the Remsede, Germany, area, where our grandparents were born and raised.This was in May.His promise was”You will hear from me,”Nothing happened for eight months, and I thought it would end in the usual failure.
Suddenly in January a letter arrieved from Germany, telling me that Mr. Witteman had located a living relatiutiveve in that area, named Elizabeth Gottschalk, age 74 years, together with her address.
I wasted no time writing aletter to her, explaining my projected Family Tree.Very quickly, Elizabeth Gottschalk’s married daughter, Hedwig Holtmeier, asnswwered my letter, assuring me that her grandparet and opurs were truly brothers.The rest of the history is in the first portion of our genealogy, Mrs. Holtmeir very graciously got all possible reords from the old parish church, whose records date back three hundred years.Throug her efforts we have all the information from the home of our grandparents that was possible to find.It remained bow only to gather the information of the relatives in Pittsburg, Pa. , and the Kansas area, which madke up the contents of this books.
HISOTRY OF THE GOTTSCHAL NAME AND COAT OF ARMS
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